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Using self-service sign up in your organization

10/26/2018

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We're listening to your feedback and have made it easier for users in your organization to sign up for online services from Microsoft. We call this new sign up process "self-service sign up" because your users can sign up to use services paid by your subscription, or use free services, without asking you to take action on their behalf.

How self-service sign up works

The following example describes how self-sign up works for a school. The same process works for any organization that has self-service programs enabled in their tenant.

Students and faculty members have school email addresses that indicate they are associated with your institution. For example, the email address jakob@uw.edu may indicate a student from the University of Washington.

Students and faculty go to our web site, and use their email address to sign up for the services that your organization offers, such Office 365 ProPlus. They can also sign up for other free services that we offer.

We validate their email address, and then they can get started using Office 365, Power BI, or other services right away.

As the business admin, you will see who has signed up for a subscription by viewing the Subscriptions page in the Admin center. This way you can see when there are new or unrecognized licenses for services in your tenant.

Available self-service programs

Following are the currently available self-service programs. This list will be updated as new programs are added.

Program

Description

Additional Info

Website for self-service sign up

Office 365 A1

Any student or teacher can use a school email address to sign up for free Office 365 and get Office Online, 1TB of OneDrive cloud storage and SharePoint Online for class, team and project sites.

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